the NSF and DOE funding to operate and maintain the Ruben Vera Observatory and to organize and archive the data are not zeroed out. In order to support tax cuts for billionaires and because some observatory staff are required to be "woke" all night of course.
The follow-up mission, with more antennas, better shielding, and better noise-rejection is in preparation for launch in Dec 2025 or Jan 2026.
https://pueo.space/
That is if the NASA Scientific Balloon Program https://www.csbf.nasa.gov/ survives the "Move fast and break things" budget chainsaw taken to the NASA budget. To loose this program and the PUEO mission and other upcoming balloon missions would be incredibly short-sighted.
That would be an NREL report with a nice explanation and analysis of grid inertia in the US.
https://docs.nrel.gov/docs/fy2...
A key take-away from "Inertia and the Power Grid: A Guide Without the Spin"
Using power electronics, inverter-based resources including wind, solar, and storage
can quickly detect frequency deviations and respond to system imbalances. Tapping
into electronic-based resources for this “fast frequency response” can enable response
rates many times faster than traditional mechanical response from conventional
generators, thereby reducing the need for inertia.
The report also has some observations on the Texas ERCOT grid.
Sure would be nice to see a follow-up as this report dates from 2020, But it's not the sort thing the trusk thought police are likely to allow.
with RFK Jr as Secretary of Health and Human Services, a flake nominated for Surgeon General, the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau gutted, and ponzi schemes such as crypto on the rise.
Higher Education can be a strange business.
In what other business do so many customers try as hard as possible to get as little as possible for their money?